This week’s quote is from Charles Stross’s The Atrocity Archives, about an IT guy at a secret paranormal government agency:

In the case of the great circuit of Al-Hazred, the terminator was originally a black goat, sacrificed at midnight with a silver knife touched only by virgins, but these days we just use a fifty microfarad capacitor.

And, of course, there’ll be other people’s cats watching other other people’s cats…